Comments on: Apple: Making 2009 just like 1984. http://brokenhivemind.com/?p=13 [ 4C ][ 30 ][ 47 ][ 31 ][ 43 ] Thu, 02 Sep 2010 17:02:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Nathan http://brokenhivemind.com/?p=13&cpage=1#comment-106 Nathan Mon, 01 Mar 2010 13:12:28 +0000 http://brokenhivemind.com/?p=13#comment-106 There will always be fanatics for any given product. Whether it's cars or computers or something else they don't want to pay real attention to, but have an interest in. It's a way for the brain to shut down and not have to comprehend reality besides some lopsided loyalty. I know Apple users who don't even blink when at first told the iPhone wouldn't have Flash player because it was too processor heavy, and then told the iPad wouldn't have Flash because it's a nuisance. And I know Honda drivers who get into multiple accidents because their brakes are poorly constructed, and Honda repairmen have yet to fix the car's lack of stopping power. But still in their mind: Honda constructs the most reliable and best vehicle on the road. There's no use in fighting in anymore. Those who know better will use free open source utilities when appropriate, and those who don't will continue to find company's separating them from their money. There will always be fanatics for any given product. Whether it’s cars or computers or something else they don’t want to pay real attention to, but have an interest in. It’s a way for the brain to shut down and not have to comprehend reality besides some lopsided loyalty.

I know Apple users who don’t even blink when at first told the iPhone wouldn’t have Flash player because it was too processor heavy, and then told the iPad wouldn’t have Flash because it’s a nuisance.

And I know Honda drivers who get into multiple accidents because their brakes are poorly constructed, and Honda repairmen have yet to fix the car’s lack of stopping power. But still in their mind: Honda constructs the most reliable and best vehicle on the road.

There’s no use in fighting in anymore. Those who know better will use free open source utilities when appropriate, and those who don’t will continue to find company’s separating them from their money.

]]> By: 007 http://brokenhivemind.com/?p=13&cpage=1#comment-9 007 Sun, 22 Nov 2009 06:47:42 +0000 http://brokenhivemind.com/?p=13#comment-9 I should also note that there used to be more Apple software on Windows as well. Does anyone remember Final Cut for Windows? I should also note that there used to be more Apple software on Windows as well. Does anyone remember Final Cut for Windows?

]]> By: 007 http://brokenhivemind.com/?p=13&cpage=1#comment-8 007 Sun, 22 Nov 2009 04:32:37 +0000 http://brokenhivemind.com/?p=13#comment-8 Yes, it's creepy, but it's not like M$ is a bunch of saints either on the Orwellian front. Still what's funny about all of this is that Apple users wanted Steve Jobs back. Years ago when good old dead beat dad Jobs was finally canned by some guys that weren't totally Looney Tunes, Apple behaved much more like they seemed to suggest they would in their 1984 commercial. They had an arguably better processor (Power PC) and now they just use Intel and over charge you for it. They had mini-towers, now their only tower is the Mac Pro, otherwise get an iMac, or Mac Mini, or fuck off when it comes to desktops. I'm sorry but the iMacs may be able to do the work of a mini-tower, but take it from someone who knows, if you do film or audio work your very pretty iMac starts to look like a sick octopus as you try to get external interfaces to do what internal cards would do better. Too bad you have no real desktop choices anymore. Apple used to allow clones. Yes they weren't great, but that was a long time ago. Now I can build a machine with AMD opteron's in it for less than a Mac Pro. Plus AMD makes an arguably better processor. It would be awesome if I could have the choice to run OSX on the hardware I wanted to. This leads me to say, and why not? Apple is obviously focused more on their phone and MP3 players than their computers. Why not just let us buy your software and run it on whatever we want? I know, you don't want to support all of that different hardware. That's fine, Sun open sourced Solaris, and the community takes care of drivers, etc. not always well but they do. You can still buy a machine from Sun if you don't want to deal with that. Companies like Dell could start to write the drivers, etc. for OSX on the aforementioned hardware and we could actually have choice. That's what real choice is. In the computer world I would run what OS I wanted to, with the hardware I wanted to and use the software I wanted to period. This idea is actually what scares proprietary software makers. Even though they can close source their stuff if they released it say on and open platform, they like the whole, you have to buy this, this and this to get any work done scenario and Apple is the best at screwing you along these lines. For Example, you have to buy an Apple with OS 10.5 on it to run the latest Final Cut that we have out. This seems simple on the surface, but it means that they're forcing you to buy a new machine, sometimes just to run new software and charging you again for both. It's what we call, they've got you by the balls and you put them in their hands. Even if open source stuff wasn't good, and most of it is so good that M$ and Apple steal ideas from the open source community all of the time, even if it wasn't this is why it needs to be supported. Simply it comes down to choice. Crapple and M$, at some level, will never be happy just to give you something good and make a huge profit on it. Sure, they might every once in a while, like how Apple proudly advertised their UNIX roots when OSX first came out, but later they'll start to lock the OS down again (see OS 10.5), and screw you again. The only 2 ways out of this trap is are very tricky, expensive, prohibitive legal regulation, or simply to use an Open Source OS and use free software when you want, and buy other software and hardware when you want to because 3rd party vendors wouldn't help M$ and Crapple screw you. It is the only total control scenario for the user and in the end I'd rather have control of my experience than Big Brother Apple. The really messed up thing here is that they're doing all of this to you after, let me say again after you reward them by buying stuff from them. I mean really, how stupid are we for even doing business with M$ and Crapple?! Sigh, anyway, I've said what is relevant here and will stop before I just rant out of anger. In the end it goes like this. People use Applications, not operating systems. The OS is supposed to be solid and transparent yet it becomes the core argument even before applications. This is stupid, 3rd party companies should not side with Apple, M$, or even Linux. They should develop software and hardware equally for every platform and let you choose. If they don't, you shouldn't buy their products because they are helping force your hand. Apple is the most Orwellian since they try to control the whole experience from start to finish. Yes, it’s creepy, but it’s not like M$ is a bunch of saints either on the Orwellian front. Still what’s funny about all of this is that Apple users wanted Steve Jobs back. Years ago when good old dead beat dad Jobs was finally canned by some guys that weren’t totally Looney Tunes, Apple behaved much more like they seemed to suggest they would in their 1984 commercial. They had an arguably better processor (Power PC) and now they just use Intel and over charge you for it. They had mini-towers, now their only tower is the Mac Pro, otherwise get an iMac, or Mac Mini, or fuck off when it comes to desktops. I’m sorry but the iMacs may be able to do the work of a mini-tower, but take it from someone who knows, if you do film or audio work your very pretty iMac starts to look like a sick octopus as you try to get external interfaces to do what internal cards would do better. Too bad you have no real desktop choices anymore. Apple used to allow clones. Yes they weren’t great, but that was a long time ago. Now I can build a machine with AMD opteron’s in it for less than a Mac Pro. Plus AMD makes an arguably better processor. It would be awesome if I could have the choice to run OSX on the hardware I wanted to. This leads me to say, and why not? Apple is obviously focused more on their phone and MP3 players than their computers. Why not just let us buy your software and run it on whatever we want? I know, you don’t want to support all of that different hardware. That’s fine, Sun open sourced Solaris, and the community takes care of drivers, etc. not always well but they do. You can still buy a machine from Sun if you don’t want to deal with that. Companies like Dell could start to write the drivers, etc. for OSX on the aforementioned hardware and we could actually have choice. That’s what real choice is. In the computer world I would run what OS I wanted to, with the hardware I wanted to and use the software I wanted to period. This idea is actually what scares proprietary software makers. Even though they can close source their stuff if they released it say on and open platform, they like the whole, you have to buy this, this and this to get any work done scenario and Apple is the best at screwing you along these lines. For Example, you have to buy an Apple with OS 10.5 on it to run the latest Final Cut that we have out. This seems simple on the surface, but it means that they’re forcing you to buy a new machine, sometimes just to run new software and charging you again for both. It’s what we call, they’ve got you by the balls and you put them in their hands. Even if open source stuff wasn’t good, and most of it is so good that M$ and Apple steal ideas from the open source community all of the time, even if it wasn’t this is why it needs to be supported. Simply it comes down to choice. Crapple and M$, at some level, will never be happy just to give you something good and make a huge profit on it. Sure, they might every once in a while, like how Apple proudly advertised their UNIX roots when OSX first came out, but later they’ll start to lock the OS down again (see OS 10.5), and screw you again. The only 2 ways out of this trap is are very tricky, expensive, prohibitive legal regulation, or simply to use an Open Source OS and use free software when you want, and buy other software and hardware when you want to because 3rd party vendors wouldn’t help M$ and Crapple screw you. It is the only total control scenario for the user and in the end I’d rather have control of my experience than Big Brother Apple. The really messed up thing here is that they’re doing all of this to you after, let me say again after you reward them by buying stuff from them. I mean really, how stupid are we for even doing business with M$ and Crapple?! Sigh, anyway, I’ve said what is relevant here and will stop before I just rant out of anger. In the end it goes like this. People use Applications, not operating systems. The OS is supposed to be solid and transparent yet it becomes the core argument even before applications. This is stupid, 3rd party companies should not side with Apple, M$, or even Linux. They should develop software and hardware equally for every platform and let you choose. If they don’t, you shouldn’t buy their products because they are helping force your hand. Apple is the most Orwellian since they try to control the whole experience from start to finish.

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